I Love Old Houses

I really do love old houses more than new ones. They have more character. The rooms are bigger. Some have front porches. My house I got brand new twelve years ago has no porch. Just a small patio. The bedrooms except for the master bedroom are very small. It had plain white walls and cheap faucets and door knobs but I changed most of that . Now it has color. I like wallpaper and bright colors.


The house we got in Sweetwater that we are moving too the end of October was built in 1950 I believe. It has big rooms and lots of windows. I think it has about 20 windows and is 1800 square feet. House in Fort Worth had a total of  8 windows until I put in four sets of French doors and two more windows. There was not one window in the living room. We made a movie room out of the garage with lots of windows.


I can't wait until we get that house. We plan on redoing it all. I been watching a lot of shows on HGTV about remodeling houses. When they get thru with the houses they  look fantastic. The only thing wrong with that house is they added on to the back. When you go thru the kitchen there is the laundry room and then the door is on the right to go to another bedroom and then sunroom and then half a bath. That is not a good layout. Somehow we have to change all that. There has got to be a way to get to the sunroom and half bath without going thru the bedroom.


I can't wait to decorate the rooms different from the way I have these in Fort Worth decorated. Here I have a sunflower room, a coke room, pink and black room and a lime green room.  I plan on buying new stuff for the walls. A little bit at a time during these three months I am waiting. I guess I should have been an interior decorator because I love doing this sort of thing. It will be so fun to decorate the walls and get new furniture and remodel.


One thing I don't like  about old houses is most don't have master baths. You have to share and I am not too good at that. We wont have anyone there though unless someone comes to visit so I guess that will be okay.


We will build a deck and a wrap around porch. I have a son that lives in Sweetwater that is good at remodeling and promises to help . I want to put in a pond and wildflowers too. Lots of yard work. It has lots of stickers which I never have in Fort Worth but Sweetwater seems to have them everywhere. Just like dust.  That house will be so nice when we get thru with it. I got lots of good ideas.


The good thing about all of this is I get to be both places. If I get tired of the small town life I can go to the city for a few days. See my kids and grandkids and do some major shopping . I got lots of friends in Sweetwater so when Guy is out of town I can eat lunch and go shopping with friends. The best of both worlds!